Through its open source Chromium project, Google has unveiled a system for synchronizing data that is integrated directly within the browser. As a first step, the system will be designed to transfer favorites but should take care of other types of data by the browser suite. In a message posted on the official discussion group, the developer Tim Steele announced that the technology will be integrated within Chromium as early as next week and the month of August for a new update to Google Chrome.

This system of immediate sync (push) requires the establishment of an architecture at both the software on Google's servers. Tim Steele explained that the data will be automatically synchronized with the user account from Google and thoughtful on other machines. Google should also make available a web page from which the user can find all his favorites. Data transfer is via the XMPP protocol integrated with GTalk, they are also the servers of instant messaging client that will support synchronization. For now, the technology should be implemented within the browser only works with Windows and Linux. The test period should also allow to evaluate the uses and needs on the server side.

Google already offers bookmarlet to add a web page in their Favorites Google Bookmarks, Firefox users can take advantage of several extensions dedicated. With its technology Weave, Mozilla also offers a solution to synchronize bookmarks between multiple machines, but also on its mobile browser Fennec. Note that there are also other alternative services such as Delicious and Xmark (formerly Foxmarks). It remains to know more precisely what additional data will be reflected on several machines (cookies, IDs, passwords ...)